Small: Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands
"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"
Robert Conquest, Historian
Small: Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light
"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light"
Ellis Peters, Author
Small: His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into i
"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind"
Anne Bronte, Novelist
Small: The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing
"The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing"
Thomas Edward Brown, Poet
Small: We cannot afford to lose any more species to extinction. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the
Peter Knights
"We cannot afford to lose any more species to extinction. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the natural world for future generations"
Peter Knights, Activist
Small: It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
Small: Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed
Benjamin Disraeli
"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Benjamin Disraeli
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters
George Herbert
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters"
George Herbert, Poet
Small: The writer is more concerned to know than to judge
W. Somerset Maugham
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
Small: Where knowledge ends, religion begins
Benjamin Disraeli
"Where knowledge ends, religion begins"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves
Lord Byron
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: Fame is the thirst of youth
Lord Byron
"Fame is the thirst of youth"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine
Lord Byron
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin
Lord Byron
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin"
Lord Byron, Poet
Small: No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wo
Margaret Thatcher
"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
Small: There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty
Margaret Thatcher
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
Small: A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us
Margaret Thatcher
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
Small: Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery
Bertrand Russell
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Small: The mere thought hadnt even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind
Douglas Adams
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind"
Douglas Adams, Writer
Small: I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of
J.B. Priestley
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
Small: Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it posse
J.B. Priestley
"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
Small: But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even c
George Eliot
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy"
George Eliot, Author
Small: Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them
George Eliot
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them"
George Eliot, Author
Small: The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, withou
C. S. Lewis
"The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"
C. S. Lewis, Author
Small: Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one
C. S. Lewis
"It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one"
C. S. Lewis, Author
Small: Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities
C. S. Lewis
"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities"
C. S. Lewis, Author
Small: You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort
Virginia Woolf
"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort"
Virginia Woolf, Author
Small: What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hea
George Orwell
"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
George Orwell, Author
Small: An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over
Jane Austen
"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done"
Jane Austen, Writer
Small: I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet
Prince Charles
"I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet"
Prince Charles, Royalty
Small: Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial
"Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense"
Robert Walpole, Statesman
Small: The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular
"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense"
Robert Walpole, Statesman
Small: How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean
Arthur C. Clarke
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
Small: There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"
Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist
Small: From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right
Samuel Butler
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right"
Samuel Butler, Poet
Small: Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so
Samuel Butler
"Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so"
Samuel Butler, Poet
Small: The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be co
Mary Wollstonecraft
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
Small: I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world"
Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist
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